Bill Text: CA SB905 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Carbon sequestration: Carbon Capture, Removal, Utilization, and Storage Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-16 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 359, Statutes of 2022. [SB905 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SB905-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 905

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Introduced by Senator Skinner

February 02, 2022

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An act to amend Section 39740.2 of the Health ans Safety Code, relating to air pollution.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 905, as introduced, Skinner. Natural Resources Agency: Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy.

Existing law requires, no later than July 1, 2023, the Natural Resources Agency, in coordination with certain state agencies, to establish the Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy.

This bill would require the Natural Resources Agency, in coordination with those agencies, to update the strategy every 4 years.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 39740.2 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

39740.2.

 (a) No later than July 1, 2023, the Natural Resources Agency, in coordination with the California Environmental Protection Agency, the state board, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and other relevant state agencies, shall establish the Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy. Strategy and shall update the strategy every four years thereafter. In developing this strategy, the agencies shall do all of the following:

(1) Create a framework to advance the state’s climate goals.

(2) Consider, based on the best available estimates, how increasing fire risk, warming temperatures, decreasing precipitation, and other climate change impacts will affect the ability of the state to sequester carbon on natural and working lands.

(3) Support the economic and resource value of the lands and consider multiple benefits.

(4) Support pathways for sectors, such as agriculture and forestry, to participate in the transition to a carbon neutrality economy.

(5) Collect public feedback and conduct outreach.

(6) Seek to align funding mechanisms to advance the strategy.

(b) The state board, as part of its scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561, shall establish carbon dioxide removal targets for 2030 and beyond, and shall take into consideration the Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy, science-based data, cost-effectiveness, and technological feasibility in setting the targets pursuant to this subdivision. The state board shall consider a range of targets, including those in line with the special report prepared by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) entitled “Global Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius,” issued October 6, 2018, and leading carbon removal commitments globally, as well as recent and emerging research on carbon dioxide removal potential in California and market and technology conditions.